North Salem Farm

North Salem, New York

Completed 2021

Design Team
Jejon Yeung, Max Worrell, Yunchao Le, Cohen Hudson, Bryan Cordova

Collaborators
Structural Engineer: Silman
Landscape Architect: Raft Landscape
Meadow Consultant: Larry Weaner Landscape Associates
Civil Engineer: Insite Engineers P.C.
MEP Engineer: Altieri Sebor Wieber LLC

Set within the agrarian landscape of Westchester County, this family home gathers three separate structures—a main house, a garage/studio, and a spa pavilion—onto a triangular lot. The site strategy shields the structures from the abutting street and focuses views toward the landscape. At the entrance, a new driveway and gravel court, arranged around a mature magnolia tree, introduce an abstract aesthetic that runs through the project. 

Echoing and updating the archetypal gabled form of typical barns, the main house is characterized by dark metal roofing and custom dark green–stained cypress wood siding in a varied batten pattern. A mostly solid facade with an articulated dormer defines the approach side, while the rear features new enlarged windows with panoramic views trained toward the pond.

The exterior palette, inspired by dark mossy covered barns, takes on different readings depending on the light and season.

Inside, a large timber gabled roof structure stretches from one end to the other, creating an open and dramatic central communal space. The room is bookended by a fireplace/bookcase wall on one side and a guest wing volume on the other, both clad in black wood. Meanwhile, the kitchen is a more intimate space, organized around a zinc-clad island and Douglas Fir wood millwork cabinetry. A powder room with dark red–stained cypress walls and a blue encaustic tile floor offers a serene, cool counterpoint. Upstairs, two guest bedrooms symmetrically arranged on either side of the ridgeline provide east and west exposures through large dormer windows.

Photos by Naho Kubota